HISTORY
12 March 2022: This day in history

538: Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome, retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of victorious Byzantine General Belisarius

1455: First record of Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before

1642: Abel Tasman is the 1st European to sight New Zealand, viewing the north-west coast of the South Island

1918: Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia’s capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow

1930: Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax

1994: The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests

 

Source: Onthisday.com

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